Lao Tzu Quotes

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

Lao Tzu

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• Selfishness
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• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Oil

• What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • History
  • Past
  • Perspective

• Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Greed

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Clothes and manners do not make the...

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Manners

• War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • War
  • Peace
  • Sweet

• I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Men
  • Everyday
  • Hollywood

• I am a bit of a goody-goody. Not that there aren't times when I think, I was kind of an (ass) today. I work in a world in which people are really catered to; someone will come up to me and say, "Is it OK if this person's makeup is done before yours for the premiere?"

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • People
  • Work
  • Makeup

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I’d be nothing if it wasn’t for you… If it wasn’t for you…

  

  Alesso
  • You
  • Nothing

• I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • School
  • Father

• Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Destroy
  • Desires
  • Eradicate

• Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desires
  • Selfishness
  • Lessen